Due to the different growing environments of sea cucumbers, there are obvious differences in the appearance of wild sea cucumbers and farmed sea cucumbers. It is also easy to see from the appearance of dried sea cucumbers that the body of farmed sea cucumbers is slender, with long and pointed spines; the body of wild sea cucumbers is fusiform, with short and thick spines.
Compared with the price, the wild sea cucumber processed with the same processing standard is about 1 to 2 times more expensive than the farmed sea cucumber. It takes at least a month for fresh sea cucumbers to participate in the work of dry sea cucumbers, and several processing steps are required. In the process of processing sea cucumbers, whether they are processed in accordance with the standards stipulated by the state will directly affect the quality and quality of sea cucumbers, and the quality of naturally dried sea cucumbers is the best, because the nutritional value of lightly dried sea cucumbers is high.
Here's a look at the quality of common sea cucumbers and how to identify them, these dried sea cucumbers are inexpensive and are often sold pretending to be lightly dried sea cucumbers.
First, salt dried sea cucumber: salt is particularly heavy, in order to increase the weight of sea cucumber during processing, repeatedly boiled and dried with saturated brine, so that its salt content is as high as 30% to 50%, resulting in a particularly serious loss of nutrients in sea cucumber, there is not much nutrition.
Identification method:
1. The color of the body surface is generally white;
2. Add a little bit of obvious salty taste;
3. The quality of sea cucumber is thin;
4. The foaming rate is low, and the foaming is not large.
Second, sugar dried sea cucumber: the appearance seems to be very good, the body surface color is black and bright, it is easy for people to mistake it for a good sea cucumber. But this sea cucumber adds sugar during processing, which increases the weight of the sea cucumber.
1. The color of the sea cucumber body surface is black;
2. Add a little sweetness;
3. It is easy to stick when holding hands for a long time;
4. Sea cucumber thorns are soft and easy to bend;
5. The foaming rate is low, and the foaming hair is not large.
Third, freeze-dried sea cucumber: the freeze-drying technology of sea cucumber is a relatively new processing method, and the finished product is large and low cost. The lyophilized sea cucumber on the market is not as nutritious as the lightly dried sea cucumber, the taste is soft, and it is often used to pretend to be lightly dried sea cucumber. Freeze-dried sea cucumbers are hollow and swollen, the flesh is loose, and the nutrient loss is large.
1. The surface of the sea cucumber is lighter and yellower;
2. The hollow core is light in weight, and can be floated up in the water;
3. The foaming rate is low, or the foaming rate cannot be picked up at all.
Finally, to sum up: we have now identified the "truth" of the quality of sea cucumbers, and simply know how to distinguish the quality of sea cucumbers, and we will not be easily fooled when buying sea cucumbers in the future.